For the last three or four years the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has been studying the explosion of technology in the vehicle, and how to minimize the driving distractions that kill 3,500 people and injure 390,000 in U.S. crashes every year.
People are addicted, and even condemned by some of the people who do it – sending text messages while driving is illegal in all but three states (Montana, Arizona, Missouri) and calling someone on a handheld cellphone while driving is banned in 15 states.
“If you start to take your eyes off the road for more than two seconds you start to see the crash risk increase,” David Strayer, author of the study said. “The matter of time it takes to read a text is about 4½ seconds, so the shorter the interaction and the easier the interaction, the less it competes with driving.”
Read the article at The Washington Post.
